Considerations to Lose Weight Really Fast

Everyone wants to lose weight really fast but how fast can you really go. Very few people realize that there is a limit as to how fast you can lose weight. This limit really only applies if you want the weight that you have lost to stay off. If you just want to lose the weight at all cost and are not interested whether the weight returns, this article is probably not going to interest you further.

Weight loss or fat loss

With the focus being on weight loss, the dieter almost always achieves his or her goal but is never able to sustain it. The dieter is able to get lots of weight off in the shortest possible time with the least amount of effort but he has no clue as to what proportion of it is fat.

Most of the time, a large proportion of it is muscle and water. Water and muscle loss is detrimental to long-term weight loss. When you lose muscle, your metabolism gets suppressed and the body’s hormonal balance is disturbed. This primes the body for regaining all the lost weight.

Fast short-term weight loss but slow long-term weight loss

When people focus their efforts on weight loss, they get fast short-term weight loss but the weight comes back with a vengeance. They are soon on the lookout for the next diet or weight loss program to go through the whole weight loss adventure again. In the long-term, it is a never ending attempt at weight loss.

Contrast this with losing fat. When you focus on fat loss, you only have to lose the weight once. When you focus on weight loss, you will probably spend you whole life doing it like what dieters are mostly doing.

Sustainable weight loss has a limit

If you are looking to lose fat really fast, bear in mind that it is only as fast as 2 to 3 pounds of weight per week. Anything faster than this and you will lose muscle or water and the weight will come back before you know it. Is this the type of weight loss that you really want?

The point to emphasize that sustainable weight loss has a limit. If you want to be able to sustain the weight loss, you cannot be losing more than 2 to 3 pounds of pure fat a week.

Comments

Excellent post! I am always telling my weight loss clients to set realistic goals. I can’t tell you how many people over the years would lose a pound a week and feel like they were failing at their diet. My goal for my female clients is 3/4 of a pound a week and for my males it is 1 pound per week. I know that doesn’t sound like much but 3/4 of a pound per week is 3 pounds a month, 18 pounds in 6 months and 36 pounds in a year. This is the rate at which successful people lose weight. This post is dead on!Dr. Tom Halton

I like the information in this post, I would like to say that in order to help you stay positive and see your progress, it is necessary to set small goals for your weight loss, rather than huge sweeping goals. It is easy to lose motivation to lose weight when you feel like your goal is so far off. By breaking down your overall weight loss goal into small monthly or even weekly goals, you will be more inclined to stick with it.

Small goals with consistent effort is really the key to long term successful weight loss.

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